Genres & Styles

This new imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles that would normally appear only in hardback editions for specialists, but whose quality and general...

Big Beat was once one of the biggest, but ironically, perhaps most misunderstood musical movements of the Mid-Late 1990's, lead by some of the biggest artists the Electronic Dance Music scene has ever seen, such as Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook), The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615736624Author Thomas Bey William BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Belsona Books Ltd.Publisher Belsona Books Ltd.Weight(grams)...

In 1967, a 17-year-old aspiring photographer named Ed Caraeff found himself front row at the Monterey Pop Festival, California. Caraeff had never seen Hendrix before, nor was he familiar with his music. But Caraeff had his ever-present camera and as...

The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era-commonly referred to as the early music movement-has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495091254Author Bela BartokPage Count 28Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614353Author Hans-Gunter HeumannPage Count 31Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late'50s and'60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced both rock stars and classical musicians. There was a...

In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480387676Author Johann Sebastian BachPage Count 88Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653268Author Dick PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, in chronological order-he figured he'd...

"Why Jazz Happened" is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with...

Now in paper! An invaluable reference text for singers, teachers, and vocal and operatic coaches, this volume contains the complete song texts of the songs for voice and piano by Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Faure, and Ravel. All these song texts are in...

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997268706Author T Brookshire HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Brookshire Book GroupPublisher Brookshire Book GroupWeight(grams)...

In Electric Folk - Revival and Transformation of English Traditional Music, Britta Sweers chronicles the history of the genre and explores its cultural implications. She characterizes electric folk as both a result of the American folk revival of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847497079Author Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFormat PaperbackPage Count 361Imprint Oneworld Classics LtdPublisher Alma Books LtdWeight(grams) 389g

Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener's Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music's self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a...

Jazz Sessions Clarinet comprises a mixed compilation of 10 standards and original pieces spanning a host of jazz variations including blues, swing, Latin and gospel. This contemporary mix includes Fly Me To The Moon, Stompin' at the Savoy and C Jam...

Discover the remarkable stories behind some of the most popular film music of all time; From Jurassic Park to The Lord of the Rings, Vertigo to Titanic, a powerful score can make a movie truly extraordinary. The alchemy between composer and director...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189136625Author Carl Magnus PalmFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Premium Forlag ABPublisher Premium Forlag ABWeight(grams) 1702g

A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City - where he eventually runs off to join a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447088Author Gary Sharpe-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 611g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911374039Author Barry LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Flood Gallery PublishingPublisher Flood Gallery Publishing

A NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into...

This is an excellent reference volume including essays on all aspects of medieval music performance. With forty essays written by experts in the field on everything from repertoire, voices and instruments to basic theory, all aspects of recreation are...

Discover the untold stories and unbreakable bond between country music icon Willie Nelson and his longtime drummer, Paul English.Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who for 70 years acted as...

Sixties British rock and pop changed music history. While American popular music dominated the record industry in the late fifties and early sixties, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups soon invaded the world at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688167721Author Eric D NuzumFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 310g

In 2004 the London Symphony Orchestra celebrated its hundredth birthday. The centenary finds the orchestra acclaimed as one of the best in the world, making music with the most charismatic conductors and soloists on the planet. In this compelling and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994700995Author Marilyn NanceFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Fourthwall BooksPublisher Fourthwall Books

Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the...

In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains...

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic musical moments, the movie has not received the same...

Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue". Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft...

Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603788984Author John NicholasPage Count 61Imprint Cherry Lane Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Cherry Lane Music Co ,U.S.

In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to...